Tuesday, July 22, 2008

How come you are reading this?

Will someone please tell me- how can ‘how come’ be correct English usage? Nowadays, I see it being used as frequently as ‘Hello- how are yuh?’ out here. I also spot it in newspaper articles, letters to the editors,et al.

Initially, when I heard some friends using it, I thought they were paying tribute to the Red Indians of yore, who would say ‘How?’ instead of Hello, and, probably used ‘How? Come!’ as a way to say hello and invite people into their teepees without expounding much of their energy by saying ‘ Hello and welcome. Please enter our humble abode’.

Various examples of ‘How come’ that I keep hearing:‘ How come he said that?’‘ How come you did not arrive on time?’‘ How come he does not enjoy life here?’‘ How come (s)he did not come when I did?’….LOL.. err, no, I made that up…credit that to the light-hearted mood I’m in, today.

Speaking of English, I saw some more examples of fractured English recently, and some of them are just so ROFLworthy that I must share them with you. All are supposedly spoken by teachers/principals:

Principal to student..." I saw you yesterday rotating near girls hostel pulling a cigerette...? "--Class teacher to student:" pick up the paper and fall in the dustbin!!!"--Hindi teacher "I'm going out of the world to America.."--Another teacher:"..DON'T TRY TO TALK IN FRONT OF MY BACK.."--Dont. laugh at the back benches...otherwise teeth and all will be fallen down.....(My remark: I can believe that this one was really spoken)--Teacher: (When the classroom fan did not start in summer)" why is fan not onning"--Teacher in a furious mood..."write down ur name and father of ur name!!"--Chemistry HOD comes and says"My aim is to study my son and marry my daughter"

--"Tomorrow call your parents especially mother and father."--"Why are you looking at the monkeysoutside when i am in the class?!"--- Computer Lab assistant (when the student wrote the wrong code)"I understand. You understand. Computer how how understand??--Seing the principal passing by, the teacher told the noisy class.."Keep quiet, the principal has passed away"

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Quiz for today:What does this refer to::

Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance,

the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified.

One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomicalstructure;

Subsequently the second member of the team performed a self-rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.

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Thought::Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Hi,Anon..tks for your visit..Do be back,and leave your blog url next time.:)===Hi,Sol..you're soo right..even I couldn't believe that teachers would speak like that..but,after I heard some of the teachers out here,and,some in Baroda,I can believe.And,the jeopardy quiz...already mentioned in one of my posts above:)Tks.===LOL..Keshi..:) me,bad,bad boy?*most innocent look..* why,why??Read ur comment on the last post,too.===Hi,Arunima..LOL..How come such a comment on the post?===Hi,Shreya..ROFL..that's a Gujju joke,for sure.:)